Personally I go with self built, I don't do the actual assembly anymore, but I purchase the parts then step my seeing eye human through the work of putting it together. On 2/1/13, RicksPlace <ofbgmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi: I am replacing my old xp machine. > Reading the various postings I think Asus is a decent machine but I am > wondering about you business folks since this will be a development machine > and not really a media machine. > I want a i7 with 16 gig of ram and W8 Pro I think since I will be runnign > Sql Server, Visual Studio WindowEyes or JAWS 2012 and other hogs. > Any comments about the quality of Asus, Dell business (cant make heads or > tails out of the Dell site) or other vendors? > Hopefully this new machine will run for at least 4 or 5 years as my old > machines have done. > My Systemax has been good but I havent found any reliable reviews on > Systemax. > Thanks for any experience or pointers. > Rick USA -- Soronel Haetir soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq